Category:Old Bolsheviks

Old Bolshevik is an unofficial designation for a member of the Bolshevik party before the Russian October Revolution of 1917, most of whom were either tried and executed by the NKVD during Stalin's purges or died under suspicious circumstances. Most retired and/or died in the 1960s with the rise of Nikita Khrushchev and the de-Stalinization of the Soviet Union.